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Day: 23 January 2025

COLE, Jane Ann
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Long Grove Asylum

COLE, Jane Ann

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1878-d.1911 https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/tree/201247488/family?cfpid=362626940999&invitetoken=ECvF3Jfxn3lU_5wA5mYLccWXtM7LXR9AwSOFXQb65_A%3D Introduction Jane was a long way from home when she died but details from her death certificate helped to identify her and where she came from. Jane was...
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WALKER, Frank
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Long Grove Asylum

WALKER, Frank

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1879-d.1911 Vertical Tree View - Ancestry A mysterious young man from Argyle Street Frank Walker was only 32 years old when he died, and he had spent the last 9...
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HOLDEN, Henry William

Lesley LeeJanuary 23, 2025September 6, 2025
b.1886-d.1914 Vertical Tree View - Ancestry Henry’s family Henry  was the third child of five born to George Holden and his wife, Florence Emily Traies.  His siblings were George Edward...
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DASSITER, Emma
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Long Grove Asylum

DASSITER, Emma

Alison CookJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1834-d.1917 Introduction  Emma Dassiter died at Long Grove Asylum on 28 January 1917 aged 83 having been admitted to Long Grove Asylum on 7 August 1907.  She is buried in...
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BRADY, James Ernest Quinland
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Long Grove Asylum

BRADY, James Ernest Quinland

Stephen MundayJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1872-d.1921 Although our subject was baptised and registered as Ernest James Quinland Brady, his name appears as James Ernest Brady in Lunacy Patients Admission Registers.  Ernest’s parents Ernest was the...
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ANDREWS, Mabel
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Long Grove Asylum

ANDREWS, Mabel

Linda Miles-CartwrightJanuary 23, 2025January 27, 2025
b.1879-d.1911 Introduction Unfortunately, none of the definite records found for Mabel referred to her family. Not even her death certificate gave me any mention of a family. The 1911 census...
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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
1 Jun

Story 506: Thomas LINES. Wife Clara found her child George dead at nursery. Some time later, she jumped from Hammersmith Bridge into the Thames. A policeman happened to be close, jumped in after her ...and managed to get her to shore. http://www.hortoncemetery.org/lines-thomas/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
30 May

Fanny Emma Hervey - Seduced by a clergyman in confirmation classes. An extraordinary story of a girl -a life is embroiled in scandal, court proceedings and many spells in asylums.
...http://www.hortoncemetery.org/hervey-fanny-emma/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
15 May

Horton Story no. 503: Charles John McNab. His son, Colin, wrote, "I never knew my father. As I understand it he was in the Horse Artillery and was killed at Dunkirk."
In fact Charles actually died
...in Long Grove Asylum, Epsom. Read his biography here: http://www.hortoncemetery.org/mcnab-charles-john/

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HortonCemetery @horton_cemetery ·
12 May

Horton Cemetery - the 500th Life Story Published
A Discarded Headstone - Someone Cared Enough to Remember
A headstone rescued from a skip more than 40 years ago led researchers to uncover the story
...of a young woman — and reconnect her memory with living family. Read on...

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